Untraceable
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Untraceable |
| Original title | Untraceable |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | 101 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 16 JMK 14 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Gregory Hoblit |
| script | Mark Brinker Allison Burnett Robert Fyvolent |
| production | James McQuaide Eric Reid |
| music | Christopher Young |
| camera | Anastas N. Michos |
| cut | David Rosenbloom |
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Untraceable is an American thriller from director Gregory Hoblit from the year 2008 with Diane Lane , Joseph Cross , Billy Burke and Colin Hanks in the lead roles. The screenplay was written by Mark Brinker, Allison Burnett and Robert Fyvolent, and production was done by James McQuaide and Eric Reid. The film sees itself as a social criticism of the joy in the suffering of others on the Internet.
action
The FBI -Agentin Jennifer Marsh is a single widow who had been her husband Nick Haskins, who also FBI agent who was killed on duty. She lives with her young daughter Annie Haskins and her mother in a single family house in the suburbs of Portland . At night she works in the FBI's cybercrime department with colleague Griffin Dowd, which makes her more and more estranged from her family. One night, following an anonymous tip , she came across the website killwithme.com , on which visitors could watch a cat starving via live streaming video.
After the death of the cat, the webmaster of the website, who is very familiar with modern computer technology and is later identified as Owen Reilly, does not stay with animal sacrifices, but moves on to human sacrifices. The death rate of the victim accelerates as the number of visitors to the website increases. At a press conference, the public is asked not to go to the site, but this (as Jennifer Marsh feared) only increases the popularity of the site and makes victims die faster. The video streams are recorded in the killer's basement and distributed over the Internet. The first victim, a helicopter pilot of a news channel, bled to death by cuts on his chest that bleed more according to the number of visitors to the site, as each visitor the dose of anticoagulant increases. The second victim, a news anchor, dies from the heat of heat lamps, of which more and more turn on as the number of visitors increases. Eventually Jennifer Marsh's partner Griffin Dowd dies in a water bath from an ever increasing concentration of sulfuric acid . Everything is displayed publicly on the Internet.
At first it looks like the victims were chosen at random, but it turns out that Reilly is seeking revenge on anyone who exploited the video of his father's suicide and made it available to the public for entertainment. Owen Reilly had a nervous breakdown after the death of his father and was subsequently admitted to a psychiatric hospital. After he was released, he decided to prove that the public is insatiable about the suffering of others; that she basically wants to see everyone else suffer, even if it results in their death. The helicopter pilot was killed for allowing the video of his father's suicide to be filmed, and the newscaster for interviewing the owner of the car on which his father's body landed during his suicide (headshot and fall from a bridge). Agent Dowd was killed because he was about to convict Reilly. Jennifer Marsh finds out that her partner Dowd probably knew the real killer. Before his death he was able to use Morse code to give his colleagues a hint about the real identity of the murderer. Marsh is kidnapped by Reilly and locked in her own basement because he blames her for not doing anything about the display. The perpetrator wants to slowly lower her head down on a mulcher . However, Marsh manages to escape the mulcher and shoots Reilly in the basement, which millions of viewers, including the FBI, watch live on the Internet on the screen. After the death of the three-time murderer Owen Reilly, which she caused six shots in the chest, she shows her FBI badge on the camera, which is still running and the images are streamed live on the Internet. The film ends with a look into the chat room on the site where Reilly is referred to as a “genius” and requests are made as to whether the video can be downloaded.
background
- The film had a budget of $ 35 million. Approximately 52 million US dollars were brought in.
- The film started in the US on January 25, 2008. On the first weekend, the film grossed only $ 11.3 million, which was largely due to negative reviews.
- In Germany, the film opened in cinemas on April 3, 2008.
- Some critics viewed the film as hypocritical.
- The technical background is firsthand from FBI agent Jane Brillhart.
production
The film was shot in and around Portland, Oregon . Most of the interiors were shot in a studio in Clackamas , Oregon . A scene at the eastern end of Broadway Bridge was shot partly on the bridge and partly in the studio.
criticism
"The technically solid psychological thriller benefits from the convincing leading actress, but never appears credible in its undifferentiated criticism of the depictions of violence in the media, but rather speculative, above all because it depicts the torture murders with delight in detail."
“If a director understands subtle horror effects and even gives some food for thought when it comes to the consumption of violence, you will still be happy to follow him. Alfred Hitchcock might have put it this way: "Untraceable" is solid craftsmanship, regardless of the few improbabilities. "
"But in the end the excellent cast actors make the film with its hair-raising second half only tolerably bearable, but by no means recommendable."
Web links
- Untraceable in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Untraceable at rotten tomatoes (English)
- Untraceable in the German synchronous file
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Untraceable . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , February 2008 (PDF; test number: 113 218 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Untraceable . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Rebecca Murray: Diane Lane Talks About 'Untraceable' . about.com. January 23, 2008. Archived from the original on January 24, 2008. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 25, 2008.
- ↑ 'Untraceable': Film revels in torture porn it condemns . Northwest Herald . January 24, 2008. Archived from the original on August 19, 2008. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 25, 2008.
- ↑ Tom Long: Grisly 'Untraceable' embodies what it pretends to expose . The Detroit News . January 25, 2008. Retrieved January 25, 2008.
- ↑ Daniel Neman: Torture porn genre gets 'Untraceable' treatment . inRich.com. January 25, 2008. Accessed on January 25, 2008. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Bruce Newman: 'Untraceable': Streaming horror . San Jose Mercury News . January 24, 2008. Retrieved January 25, 2008.
- ^ IMDb - Miscellaneous Crew - Untraceable
- ^ Cecelia Haack: The South County Spotlight - FBI works to keep kids safe on the Internet
- ↑ Untraceable. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ cinema.de
- ↑ filmstarts.de
